A newspaper in northwest Pennsylvania published a customer’s classified ad yesterday that called for the assassination of President Obama.
The Warren Times Observer apologized today for publishing the ad and called police. The U.S. Secret Service now has entered the probe.
“May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!” the ad exclaimed, listing the names of four assassinated presidents in the chronological order of their assassinations.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated in 1865; James Garfield, the 20th president, was assassinated in 1881; William McKinley, the 25th president, was assassinated in 1901; and John F. Kennedy, the 35th president, was assassinated in 1963.
The newspaper said its advertising department did not “make the connection among the four other presidents mentioned and mistakenly allowed the ad to run.”
Even though it is regarded as one of the premier law-enforcement agencies in the world because of its immensely difficult, twin duties of safeguarding the U.S. Treasury and the life of the president of the United States, the Secret Service is not universally admired.
The agency has been under attack for months by some members of a Florida company known as AdSurfDaily.
Some ASD members accord ASD President Andy Bowdoin hero status despite Secret Service allegations he orchestrated a $100 million Ponzi scheme.
The Secret Service entered the ASD probe after ASD members falsely claimed Bowdoin, a convicted felon, had received an award from President George W. Bush for a lifetime of business achievement, prosecutors said.
ASD members sent one Secret Service agent more than 50 certified letters demanding he produce “legal evidence” against ASD — and then accused the federal prosecutors and federal judge involved in the case of conspiring against them.